array, aray, araye

t. [O. Fr. arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier to set in order, to prepare; Port. arreiar to caparison, to harne ; Prov. aredar, arrezar; Ital. arredare = to prepare. Cognate also with A.S. gerædian = to make ready, to arrange, to teach, to decree; Sw. red a = to disentangle (in Scotch, to redd ); Dan. rede = to comb, to "make" a bed; rede = ready, prepared; Dut. redderen = to arrange; Ger. redderen = to dre sails.] [REDD, READY.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. To put in order. Spec ., to put in military order for a battle or for a review. "The English army had lately been arrayed against him."- Маслulay : Hist. Eng . , chap. xii. a force of thirteen you sand fighting men were arrayed in Hyde Park, and pa ed in review before the Queen."- Ibid ., chap. xviii. 2. To invest with raiment, especially of a splendid kind. (a) Literally : and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen."Gen. xli. 42. "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,."- Rev . xvii. 4. (b) Figuratively : and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment..." Jer. xliii. 12. "... in gelid caves with horrid glooms arrayed." Trumbull. B. Technically : Law: To set a jury in order for the trial of an accused person. in which the jury are arrayed or set in order by the sheriff in his return."-Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., chap. 23, ar-rayed, * ar-rā'ied, * a-rā'yed, *a-raied, *a-rā'ide ( Eng . ), * a-rayne ( Scotch ), pa . par . & a. [ARRAY, v., ARAY, v.] "So wel arraied hous as ther was on, Aurilius in his lif saw never non. Chaucer: C. T., 11,499, 11,500.